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The line for takeout at The Border stretched into the Kroger Fuels parking lot as the restaurant offered up to-go margaritas as part of an emergency resolution passed locally on March 24 allowing the practice temporarily

COVID-19 case figures jump in Polk from single person to 10 in a week

The line for takeout at The Border stretched into the Kroger Fuels parking lot as the restaurant offered up to-go margaritas as part of an emergency resolution passed locally on March 24 allowing the practice temporarily

Kevin Myrick

Local shoppers are having to adjust to changing store hours and what items are being stocked regularly as COVID-19 impacts the community.

Kevin Myrick

The Peek Park playground was closed to local residents as of March 26 due to the spread of COVID-19.

As the pool of testing of patients continues to increase in Georgia, so does the number of positives found in people and deaths that have been attributed to the spread of COVID-19.

Polk County started off with a single case reported of the novel coronavirus, and over the past week and into the weekend saw those numbers jump from 1 to 3, then 4 to 8, and now 10 patients being treated for the disease have it.

Health officials updated their statistics to report where deaths are occurring from the virus around the state, with the largest number thus far being concentrated in Dougherty County with 17 deaths out of 239 confirmed positive tests of COVID-19 in the region around Albany. Those numbers were as of press time Sunday.

Fulton County has the most confirmed cases so far with 407 people who have been found with the virus, and 12 deaths out of those patients.

Statewide, the death toll is at 80, and more than 2,600 positive tests in patients were reported at press time. The number hospitalized was well above 600.